EDITOR—The study reported by Rytter et al attributes a risk for added admissions to hospital to delays from checkpoints, detours, and curfews imposed by the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) during January 2005—described as “a relatively calm period in the West Bank.”1 However, a review of their data raises some questions about the internal consistency and coherence of the findings and their interpretation. Of all 2228 contacts, 394 (17.7%) were delayed, and of these, 125 (32%) required admission to hospital, resulting in an overall …